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Change all single-quotes to double-quotes in your shell script, like so -


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$ cat word_extractor_script.sh
perl -p -e "s/^.*?$1/$2/" cleanme > CleanerExtract

sed "s/^/$1 /g"...

Perl can do it for you ;) perl -0777 -ne 'while (/(?<=Anna).*?(?=would)/s){print $& . "\n"; s/Anna.*?would//s}' file
Other way: perl -0777 -ne 'print $1 . "\n" while s/Anna(.*?)would//s' file

Hi Bartus11, I know, I did not try to provide a solution, I just tried to explain what a sed construction such as he used does, since it did not work as he expected (actually that was what he was...

Try perl -0777 -ne '/(?<=Anna).*(?=would)/s;print $&;' file or perl -0777 -ne '/(?<=Anna).*?(?=would)/s;print $&;' file